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As a scholar of transformative learning and sustainability education, Elizabeth helps facilitate the learning needed for creating a life-giving, sustainable world.
03/22/2026
"To be fully human is to be wild. Wild is the strange pull and whispering wisdom. It's the gentle nudge and the forceful ache. It is your truth, passed down from the ancients, and the very stream of life in your blood. Wild is the soul where passion and creativity reside, and the quickening of your heart. Wild is what is real, and wild is your home." — Victoria Erickson
03/16/2026
❤️🩹🖋️ Alice Walker
03/16/2026
01/25/2026
Good climate action news!
How Heat Pumps Became America's Hottest Home Energy System The U.S. has gotten on the heat pump bandwagon, with the efficient heating and cooling technology outselling gas furnaces three years in a row.
01/25/2026
Good news!
Bison Are Bringing Back Biodiversity to Britain In just a few years, the only free-roaming bison herd in the U.K. has already made a tangible difference in the surrounding ecosystem.
01/25/2026
Good news!
Fish Are Thriving in the River Seine For years, the storied French waterway was nearly biologically dead. Now, it’s teeming with marine life once again, as it did centuries ago.
12/25/2025
Happy Holidays to one and all!
12/23/2025
Consider joining my new course in January! There is still room!
EDST 632 Transformative Approaches to Sustainability Education
Athabasca University January to April 2026
What will it take to create sustainable and just societies—societies that are attentive to and life-giving for human diversities and that can sustain life on Earth indefinitely?
As societies modernized, people began to forget how to live in harmony with other beings and with Earth processes. This has reached such an extent that we now threaten life on Earth, particularly through the climate and biodiversity crises.
Education has been a primary conveyor of modern values, practices, and ways of thinking, and it has also been a key avenue for questioning and challenging established ways of thinking. Therefore, if we are to provide pathways to livable futures, we must take a new approach to education.
In this course, we will examine the historical arc of Western society in order to understand how we reached these converging crises, explore the civilizational shift that is now occurring, and consider the change pathways that could lead to different kinds of futures. We will also examine the history of Western and modern education and the history and evolution of environmental and sustainability education and the new science.
Throughout, we will explore transformative learning informed by Indigenous and other non-Western ways of knowing and being. This course’s innovative approach uses a range of experiential activities that put into practice the same transformative pedagogies that will help us to envision pathways to a more sustainable and just future.